The story on that reserved word table in my books is this: I was depending on the information in the Java in a Nutshell book which I re-organized for that table. It turned out that Flannagan re-used information from the pre-JDK 1.02 release of Java in which there were a lot of words reserved by the design team. Sun changed the reserved word list BUT did not mention the change in the release documents so both Flannagan and I published an obsolete list. Anybody using the Java 2 Exam Cram or Java 2 Exam Prep books should get the errata from: http://www.lanw.com/books/errata/ which I try to keep up to date.